Columba Bush
Born	August 17, 1953 (1953-08-17) (age 54) León, Guanajuato, Mexico
Occupation	former First Lady of Florida
Predecessor	Anne Selph
Successor	None
Religious stance	Roman Catholic
Spouse	Jeb Bush (1974 - present)
Children	George P. Bush, Noelle Bush, Jeb Bush, Jr.
Parents	Jose Maria Garnica and Josefina (or Josephina) Gallo

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Bush was born as Columba Garnica Gallo in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, where she grew up and attended high school. Her parents were Jose Maria Garnica, a migrant worker, and Josefina (or Josephina) Gallo. She met Jeb Bush in 1971 in León, where he was teaching English as part of a foreign exchange program. They were married on February 23, 1974, in Austin, Texas.^[1] The couple have three children: George P. Bush, Noelle Bush, and Jeb Bush, Jr.. She made headlines in June 1999 when she misled U.S. Customs officials about $19,000 (US) in new clothing and jewelry she brought into the country because she did not want her husband to know how much she had spent on a five-day Paris shopping trip.^[2] Calle 5 de Mayo. ... Guanajuato is a state in the central highlands of Mexico. ... Migrant farm worker, New York A migrant worker is someone who regularly works away from home, if they even have a home. ... John Ellis Jeb Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, is the forty-third and current Governor of Florida. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A student exchange program is a program in which a student, typically in secondary or higher education, chooses to live in a foreign country to learn, among other things, language and culture. ... is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. ... George Prescott Bush (born April 24, 1976 in Texas) is an attorney and real estate developer, who is the eldest of three children of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his wife Columba. ... Noelle Lucila Bush (born 26 July 1977 in Texas) is the daughter of former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Columba Bush, the younger sister of George P. Bush, the older sister of Jeb Bush, Jr. ... John Ellis Bush, Jr. ... The United States Customs Service (now known as U.S. Customs and Border Protection or CBP) was the portion of the US Federal Government dedicated to keeping illegal products outside of US borders. ...

Bush's relationship with her mother was the subject of a brief profile in the book Mamá: Latina Daughters Celebrate Their Mothers by Maria Perez-Brown (ISBN 0-06-008386-7). Her parents divorced in 1963.

Activism

Bush has been active in promoting the arts. In 1999 she worked with Arts for a Complete Education/Florida Alliance for Arts Education (ACE/FAAE) to develop Arts for Life!, a program devoted to increasing the importance of art in the education system. She has also used her experience with her family's substance abuse issues to aid treatment and prevention programs such as the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). She has served as co-chair of the NIAAA initiative, Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free, and has served on the board of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ...

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